Today, Parade Mag­a­zine announced their selec­tions for their annual High Boys Bas­ket­ball All-American Team. Accord­ing to Parade, Jared Sullinger, the magazine's 2010 Player of the Year will be headed to Ohio State next, likely to shore up an offense who will miss AP Col­lege Player of the Year, Evan Turner, as he is likely to bolt Ohio State for the glory of play­ing in NBA.

Ohio State's Evan Turner, Kentucky's John Wall and Demar­cus Cousins, are part of a grow­ing class of excep­tion­ally tal­ented first-year play­ers who oth­er­wise would have made the jump after their senior years of high school to The Asso­ci­a­tion (the nick­name for the NBA).

The only rule that stopped them from doing just that was one enacted in 2005 by cur­rent NBA com­mis­sioner David Stern. Con­cerned with the num­ber of recruiters and agents mak­ing their way into high school gym­na­si­ums, and the notion that many of these young ath­letes viewed the NBA as a finan­cial secu­rity blan­ket, Stern believed that some­thing had to change. Even the past suc­cesses of cur­rent Boston Celtics star Kevin Gar­nett and Los Ange­les Lak­ers icon Kobe Bryant, who both made the leap from high school to the NBA in 1995 and 1996 respec­tively, could not sway Stern from estab­lish­ing new NBA eli­gi­bil­ity rules.

Basi­cally, Stern's new rules stated that play­ers must be 19 years of age and one year removed from high school before they could be eli­gi­ble to play with the Pros. And so began a trend of play­ers (see Kevin Durant, Greg Oden, Der­rick Rose, etc…) who were labeled "One-and-Dones."

This title was handed to play­ers who oth­er­wise would have made them­selves eli­gi­ble for the NBA draft after their grad­u­a­tion from high school, and instead were required to play one year of col­lege ball.

How­ever, this trend might reverse. One impe­tus is the pos­si­bil­ity of an NBA lock out next sea­son (trans­la­tion: We can't watch bas­ket­ball on tele­vi­sion as the play­ers go on strike). As result, first year col­lege play­ers would be incen­tivized to stick around for another year or so, tak­ing classes toward the com­ple­tion of a degree.

Addi­tion­ally, the NCAA is mulling over the idea of expand­ing March Mad­ness from 64 teams to 96, that's right, 96 teams. And while this deci­sion cer­tainly impacts the class time col­lege ath­letes will miss while on the road to the Final Four, such a deci­sion may per­suade many first-year play­ers who would oth­er­wise depart for the grand life in the NBA, to play for all four eli­gi­ble years.

Think about it: A 96 team tour­na­ment would make some stu­dent ath­letes believe that their team has a chance to com­pete for the NCAA cham­pi­onship dur­ing their four years of school. Why leave for the NBA when the prob­a­bil­ity for glory in the col­le­giate game is greater?

So, to those Parade All-American and other highly-touted, soon-to-be grad­u­at­ing high school b-ball student-athletes: Please con­sider your col­lege careers beyond one sea­son. And if you are look­ing for more rea­sons to do so, please read any of these BG arti­cles.